PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

Wanted to get it as close to Thatcher’s birthday as possible.

Maybe a ploy to suppress the remaining Jewish vote who haven't abandoned Labour over supposed antisemitism?

Religious Jews would be unable to vote in this election as it will be on the first day of the festival of Sukkot. https://t.co/cnhkKC4QY9

— Adam Wagner (@AdamWagner1) September 2, 2019

Nah, they just haven’t thought that one through.

Presumably there will be the option of postal voting.

lads... getting a little nervous about an election fought on "let's just get on with it" Vs "let's delay things again". noticed BJ referred to it as "corbyn's delay" a couple of times too

lol we’re all gonna die

is basically how i break it down to an extent

Corbyn's pointless delay, to be exact.

I really want a long preemptive extension from the EU just for the bants now

Gove is no longer going to release the watered down Yellowhammer stuff because of the risk it’ll alarm the public. No deal strategy not looking great!

David Gauke confirms he will vote against the government tomorrow and Wednesday. He is set to lose the Conservative whip

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) September 2, 2019

i'll be thinking of when this turd was repping for UC a couple of years back and crying into my beer when he bravely falls on his sword of honour...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/01/tom-watson-face-calls-resign-extent-ties-nick-revealed-underacted/

can't they find some way of getting shut of Watson now, before this damning report comes out in two weeks

Well this whole thing (i.e. whether or not we're all gonna lol die) is dependent now on Tories developing a conscience. Oh dear. Either that or forming yet another breakaway party.

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When the DWP job landed on Gauk I recall someone saying he's a moderate is this one and a pol of substance, he will object to the brutal UC rollout - well you know what happened next etc...

Whatever happened to David Davis? Weird how he got left out of this cabinet.

he's taller than boris and ex SAS...

Two Labour MPs on Newsnight just now, saying they'd vote against calling an October general election. Stakes raised again. What's Cummings got for that?

(probably Tory peers filibustering the block-no-deal bill)

woke DAG is something to see

Solidarity with all trans people

This vile nastiness cannot be allowed to prevail https://t.co/thDanWMRGn

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) September 2, 2019

never realised Owen posted on here as Andrew Farrell but everyhing is crystal clear now

Big LOLs if Labour do vote against a General Election tbh. I notice Labour are nonetheless preparing for a People vs. Parliament campaign by banging on about elites and elitism.

They might vote against one if it’s a lever to sneak in no deal, it’s been a consistent approach from them and they’d go hard on it.

Justine Greening standing down; she barely kept her seat last time.

lol @ spreadsheet phil dismissing "incomers and entryists" who have taken over his party and Cummings isn't even a party member, that's not a slur in my book.

Probably the most interesting Phil’s been since his disco goth years.

Do you think those standing down are set to vote against the government today?

presume they think they can get away w this strategy of saying 'we don't want an election' while all he time planning for one on 14/10 because most people don't follow this nonsense closely and 'we don't want an election' will be the thing that gets clipped on the 6 and the 9

xp most of them are remainers who hate Boris so you’d imagine so. He hasn’t got anything to threaten them with.

Shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti has been on the Today programme denying that there is division in the party over whether to back an election (see 6.28am).

She said Labour would “need to get the sequencing right” before backing an election, and would first need “a locked in guarantee that Britain would not crash out of the EU during a campaign period”.

Chakrabarti said if they could “lock things down to ensure we don’t crash out” then, of course, they would want a general election. “We are geared up for a general election and we want it as soon as possible.”

On a FB thread populated by long ‘90s media melts, they were openly begging for the return of Blair, as they do every time he’s on the news.

Must be nostalgic for another illegal war

there is no 'progressive alliance' to be had with Lib Dems. They're a centre-right party - their natural allies are the (rapidly dwindling) Cameronite wing of the Tory Party. That's about all there is to it tbh pic.twitter.com/NwN52W1x6g

— tom (@malaiseforever) September 3, 2019

Peter Walker’s not having a great time of it, is he?

pic.twitter.com/4iNfSZiCSH

— Cynical Bathtub (@cynical_bathtub) September 3, 2019

God I hate the shouty cunt outside of Parliament

God I hate Dan Walker

Would be good if Nigel Farage could just go away forever and have every record of his existence expunged, nothing of any value can be gained by any sort of consideration of him.

On a FB thread populated by long ‘90s media melts, they were openly begging for the return of Blair, as they do every time he’s on the news.

― coup de twat (suzy),

Curious about people in this area. Do you know if they were anti Iraq war? What do they think public perception of Blair is?

Tories on the radio calling today's vote undemocratic and shenanigans but who seem ok with last week's unilateral proroguing.

does suicide chess come in 5d?

Would be good if Nigel Farage could just go away forever and have every record of his existence expunged, nothing of any value can be gained by any sort of consideration of him.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 bookmarkflaglink

I'd rather him and his Brexit party stay a while longer.

there is no 'progressive alliance' to be had with Lib Dems. They're a centre-right party - their natural allies are the (rapidly dwindling) Cameronite wing of the Tory Party. That's about all there is to it tbh pic.twitter.com/NwN52W1x6g
— tom (@malaiseforever) September 3, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 bookmarkflaglink

LJs plan of a lib lab pact shattered.

won't matter to their voters - their progressive lodestar is 'remain'

The important thing for them is Blair won three elections and made it possible for people like them (white, aspirational) to just get on with enjoying their lives etc etc. I think it’s just as coddling a form of nostalgia as the Brexit faction’s version, the main difference being that the long ‘90s Blairite tendency is officially Not Racist - and I know a lot of them who marched against the war and kept voting Labour because their MPs were anti-war. *cough*

Quite an interesting story:

Dunkirk's experiment with free public transport has been a success, revitalising the town centre and handng a lifeline to poorer residents. It might not be workable everywhere but surely this is something cities should henceforth be seriously considering.https://t.co/rgBnvZncCj

— Oliver Farry (@ofarry) September 3, 2019

suspect they are now "but muh the iraq war" ppl who may have been anti-war at the time but (i) think people should get over it, (ii) believe the blair government's achievements outweighed its worst excesses & (iii) don't understand how important an animus it is for the current (returning) membership that JC and his close allies resisted the war

Thanks for that xyzzzz!

Have long thought all public transport should be free (or at least an aim)

labour policy to have bus travel free for under-25s... would hope they go further eventually

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Thanks Suzy, makes sense, kind of "I wish all the "stuff" would go out of the news instead of bothering me"? Wait till they find out about climate change!

as an ageing boomer i do also sometimes wish everything would go away, it's very exhausting and i will be 60 next year :(

i just know it won't go away without a big fuck-off fight and reorganisation-of-everything and if i'm choosing my fighter it's not going to be magical war criminal

and i will be 60 next year

if BG hasn't eaten me